Alarmed with the amount the law firm was asking, I Google searched the law firm's address. The search turned out a lot of revelations. I was given a site dedicated to fighting internet scams. Lo and behold, the email address of Wittaya Sinka turned up as involved in scams of this sort. The photocopied forms that I received were also in the site, with exactly the same text as the "official" letters I got. Those were templates readily available to the scammers.
Looking back at the whole episode, identity theft was very evident. The identity of a real employee of the bank was stolen, using his ID and passport. God knows how many times the identity of the person was used for a scam like this. The poor guy must have suffered a lot, his reputation badly tarnished. I think he is the first casualty here. I wonder how he will explain it to his bank, should his employers be aware of it.
Then the firm in question because there is a real firm by that name whose expertise is on immigration and the like, not the settling of inheritance claims. I wouldn't be surprised if all of these are the handiwork of a single person, a man with a criminal mind capable of making such devious schemes.
I hope that with this short narrative, I would be able to inform the unwary public who could easily be swayed by the photocopied documents, bank forms and statements, showing the purported bank deposits amounting to millions of dollars. These documents can easily be persuasive because for all intents and purposes, the documents are real enough, the texts altered to fit the intended victim.
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